Word in your ear: Thought

[Tz69ponnu]

Dear Alan and all team-mates,
At last 2011 is became a present reality and this would bring us more thoughtful days and many more good thoughts to cherish our life. It's the time to thought about the days of 2010 and is to revamp your spirit too.
Take care.
Thomas

[Tamari]

Thank you so much for sending me regular articles. Hopefully you are always happy in your daily routines. And I will try to understand whatever you send me. I look forward to hearing the next articles.

[Shanthisethuraman]

Hi Alan Sir

Thank you for your definition and essay. No idea has come to my mind to think
about anything. What do you think about this? To think, do, write, work,
read and play we should plan ourself to activiate the same.
I thought about to attend test this morning but when I saw relatives in my house,
I dropped the idea.

Thank you

S.Shanthi.

[M25ahmad]

Hello
How many kinds of Word are?

[M25ahmad]

How many kinds of Noun are?

[Rum]

what does this means : how is your saturday coming along? and what should be the answer?

[Beeesneees]

It means 'How has your Saturday been so far?'
how is it coming along/ = how is it shaping up? = how is it turning out?
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Cheers m' dears!

[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Alan,

You are a thought-reader. Before yesterday when I got home by bus I was reading a grammar book on the bus about the "Think + prep. and thought (n)" . I was fed up with myself that after think I want to put always an "of" whereas it is unnecessary. And yesterday your newsletter came. What a coincidence!
Now I began to know how to use this noun and verb.
You:
-A wonderful thought came into my mind....
-He was sitting and turning something in his mind...
-I'd really would appreciate your thoughts on the matter...
-I thought about doing out....
-It is not easy you thought...
-I honestly thought I worked very long hours but...

I read three kind of verbs:

think(v)(without prep)=you believe sth.
-I thought I heard a scream.
-Do you think (that )he'll come?

think(with about) =you consider or concentrate your mind on sth.
- You look serious. What do you think about?
-"Will you lend me money?" "I'll think about it."
-What do you think about this idea?

1.think of (v)= the idea comes to my mind or doesn't come
He told me his name but I didn't think of it now.
That's a good idea. Why didn't think of that?
2.think of=when we ask or give an opinion.
"What do you think of the film?" "I didn't think much of it."

When is the difference is very small between "think of" and "think about"?
1.-When I am alone, I often think of you./or: think about you.

2. -if we speak about doing sth in a possible future action.
I am thinking of going to France./ I am thinking about going to France.

Regards:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Dongtien]

Hi, Alan!
I think the syntax grammar in this lesson is very useful. By the way, can you tell me how to use "as" in some case.
Best regards!

[Shanthisethuraman]

Hi,

As can be used many ways. for ex. As I suffer from fever, I am not in a position to
attend test.

As you said that Alan's Grammar is good, so many learners have appreciated.

As you had joined on this forum you can learn several things about grammar.

Thank you

S.Shanthi

[Issa1]

Hi Alan! Your interesting essay is thought-provoking.

[Dongtien]

Hi, S.Shanthi!
Thanks for your help!
Hope to see you soon!

[Shanthisethuraman]

Hi

You are welcome to India but not to my place. I will not invite anyone to my place
since it is very small place.

Thank you

S.Shanthi

[Kati Svaby]

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About the word 'thought':

Thought

Definition: (noun) an idea that comes into your mind. Something you think about. (verb) The past tense of the verb 'think'.

Uses: A wonderful thought (noun) came into my mind last night, which I'd like to tell you about: Let's go on a world cruise!

He was sitting there looking very serious and turning something over in his mind. It was clear that he was deep in thought (noun)

I'd like you to look through this letter and give me your opinion of it. I really would appreciate your thoughts (noun) on the matter.

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I thought (verb) about going out for a walk this morning but when I saw the rain, I decided against the idea.

I know you originally believed that it was a very easy exam but now you've taken it, I'm sure you have discovered it's not as easy as you thought (verb).

I honestly thought (verb) I worked very long hours but now I see how long you work, I've changed my views.

Variations: She always thinks of others first and what they need as she is obviously a very thoughtful (considerate) individual.

Some people aren't a bit interested in what they do to the environment and are very thoughtless (inconsiderate) in the way they drop their rubbish in the street.

I hope you don't mind that I've recorded your essay.

Regards:
Kati Svaby
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Cambridge Collections Online » The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell » Orwell’s essays as a literary experience

The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
6 Orwell’s essays as a literary experience
William E. Cain

The experience of reading George Orwell's essays is special - bracing, illuminating, invigorating. It is not the specific judgements Orwell makes as much as the action of his thinking and the movement of his feeling that distinguish him. He took stands on issues; he had convictions and expressed his principles. But this is not the defining fact about Orwell as a literary figure, as an artist. He is a great essayist because of the experience he creates for readers - a provocation of the intellect, an education of the intelligence, which includes but exceeds the positions he advocated. Orwell aims in his essays to make readers more self-conscious, more aware of how we think and feel. A demanding writer, Orwell requires close attention and incites self-scrutiny. In his literary enterprise, if not in his style, he is akin to Ralph Waldo Emerson, for in his essays Orwell exhibits 'man thinking' (Emerson's phrase in 'The American Scholar', 1837), and the Emerson-like creation of unorthodox thinking is his goal. Self-reliance and non-conformity: these are Emerson's central terms, and they signify Orwell's ambition and activity as a writer of essays as well. The immediate impact of Orwell's sentences and paragraphs is not Emersonian: Emerson is more allusive and harder to fathom from line to line. But an intention as essayists unites them: like Emerson, Orwell shapes sentences that disconcert and surprise readers; he impels us to feel discontented with stock ideas and conventional opinions.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.